Keyhole surgery - Recently, minimally invasive, or keyhole, surgery (laparoscopy see ... ...

Keyhole surgery - The doctor as video games player - Surgeons are rushing in to try their hand at minimally invasive operations without proper training or understanding of when they are appropriate. ...

Keyhole hernia op: more complications than open surgery - New research from the UK has prompted calls for a curtailment of laparoscopic hernia repairs, in favour of general surgery. ...

Gallbladder cancer linked to keyhole surgery - Keyhole surgery can trigger gallbladder cancer or cause it to recur, researchers have found. The procedure, known as laparoscopic cholecystectomy, whi...

Case study: Risks of Keyhole surgery - In August 1991 I underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (removal of the gall bladder via keyhole surgery) and shortly afterward experienced pain on...

Organ injury during laparoscopy affects quality of life - Even if the repair operation is a technical ‘success’, bile duct injury (BDI) during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal by ‘keyhole’ su...

Keyhole womb op: 'a waste of time' - While medical authorities are looking at improving competence levels of surgeons performing laparoscopic "keyhole" surgery, new evidence has emerged t...

Not easily through the keyhole - Keyhole surgery, the gee-whiz technology that has transformed surgery, still doesn’t work as well as the old-fashioned conventional surgery for hernia...